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@nexia:

Thank you for the bug report on the categories. I had been working on that several weeks back and ran into an issue with the redirect after save and obviously forgot to go back and complete it.

There is no way to make everyone happy with one slug name, so developers should be able to change it to whatever they like. In theory it should be possible for you to rename the slug by defining BP_LINKS_SLUG in wp-config.php, but I have not done any testing yet. If you want to be the first to test it, I would be happy to address any bugs that you might find.